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A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity

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How to slip the golden handcuffs.

A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity You’re done your interviews, and you have a few Silicon Valley startup offers in-hand. The offers have a bunch of numbers and you’re not sure how to put them all together. You’re bombarded by terms like ISOs and NSOs and vesting period and cliff and strike price and fair market value that you don’t really understand, but owning 0.1% of the company sounds great in theory, so you go to sign on the dotted line. Pause. Subtle differences here can have massive downstream consequences. If you’re unaware of some of these policies, you migh

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